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Men, Women & Children (2014)
We are all insignificant and don't know each other as much as we think we do.
This film shows the way the Internet changed the relationships people have in real life with others and with themselves. I didn't feel like the Internet was being blamed for those changes, but instead it just gave possibilities that people could take or not. This film is about how insignificant we all are, it makes you put things in perspective and analyze your priorities. Also, you end up having the feeling you don't really know other people even if you live with them.
The story centers around a group of teenagers and their parents. I liked the way they took stereotypes of teenagers and showed them in a different light, outside of high school. You have the cheerleaders, the jocks, the loners and they are all complex people instead of just good or bad. I got a "The Breakfast Club" feeling because you see them as people who deal with personal issues and are not as perfect as they might seem. When it comes to the adults, it centers around their romantic relationships and their problems.
In all the situations, the Internet functions as an scape from reality, a way to explore new things, being someone different and getting the kind of support they couldn't find in real life. That's why I think the portrayal of the Internet was realistic and not just plain negative. I think this film is a dialogue starter, a great film to be watched by parents and their children. It gets uncomfortable at times but if you talk to each other about your own experiences with the Internet you might end up knowing your family better.
6 Years (2015)
This is not a love story, this is the portrayal of an unhealthy relationship.
I felt like this story wanted to prove something and that is that women can also be the abusive and aggressive ones in the relationship. Have in mind that I'm a female so there's no way this is biased. I'm actually recognizing that men can be victims of abuse too. It happens. The relationship between Dan and Melanie seems perfect to the outside but has an unhealthy nature. They have arguments in which she pushes and slaps him while he tries to keep her away from him. In one incident, after she pushes him, he falls to the floor and hits his head. The blood stars running so they both go see a doctor. The doctor asks him what happened and he lies, she believes him and let them go after saying something like "okay, that's all I need to know". You can clearly see if the situation was the opposite, she would have asked a lot of questions to find out if Melanie had been hit by Dan. A friend of Dan even says so when he tells her what really happened.
Then there are more fights in which she seems like the victim but really isn't. He even goes to jail for a whole day just because the police saw them and assumed he was trying to hurt her. There's a moment when the aggressor becomes a victim when she almost gets raped by a random dude.
Thinking about it, they are both victims, of themselves. They are so caught up in that twisted "love" they feel that they can't seem to function when they are on their own. That's why she forgives his infidelities and he forgives her aggressions. That's not love that's obsession and lack of self-esteem.
Kids (1995)
This movie is about young girls and boys having unprotected sex and the objectification of girls bodies.
I just finished watching this and it was an uncomfortable experience. I understand the director wanted to be realistic but to me that was just an excuse to get away with child exploitation, There was no need to show the amount of girls bodies that was shown. As usual, it's all for the pleasure of the male: tits, two girls kissing, rape. In the swimming pool scene where the black kid is shaking his dick they don't show it, you hear the sound and you see their friends laughing, but when it comes to girls you see their nipples and their butts. It bothers me a lot how directors get away with inappropriate things in the name of art, like it somehow justifies whatever they do. There is no story, no point to prove apart from the fact that the blonde girl gets HIV after having one sexual encounter without protection. You see her crying and being miserable but nobody does anything to help her or tells her what to do, not even the people who tested her. It's a really upsetting movie to watch and I bet that was the director's intention, to disturb and provoke people. Well he did it but that doesn't change the fact that, to me, he's a pedo.